US Patent Issued to University of Florida Research Foundation on March 17 for "Robust automatic tracking of individual triso-fueled pebbles through a novel application of x-ray imaging and machine learning" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,089, issued on March 17, was assigned to University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Gainesville, Fla.).

"Robust automatic tracking of individual triso-fueled pebbles through a novel application of x-ray imaging and machine learning" was invented by Kyle Hartig (Newberry, Fla.), Hongcheng Liu (Gainesville, Fla.) and Emily Kwapis (Gainesville, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure presents systems and methods of tagging TRISO-fueled pebbles. One such method comprises acquiring an ionizing radiation image of a TRISO-fueled pebble; analyzing, using a machine learning algorithm, the acquired image of the TRISO-f...